Heavy defoliate before flipping 12/12
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hotrodharley
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There’s no need to do anything but change the timer. There’s no benefit to a dark period.
1ManTeam
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Ok , I was trying to find data on what happens when they sleep . Maybe recover from stress or something
harrythehat
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plants are used to leafs being broken in the wild and suffer little from it.
You can defoliate and flip. It wont hurt them
when a branch /leaf gets damaged/removed they put out something like an adrenalin to repair
this can be used when branches are stunted like mine to get an extra bit of growth at the tip heavy leaf removal puts the growth towards the tip of the plant rather than the leaf.
my grows get constantly defoliated pretty much all the way through grow and veg.
last grow total leaf removed was 15 kilos. Yes was being nurdy weighing them wet.
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his grow they suffered a root burning through my own fault had to heavily lollipop before flipping
you can see the leaf piles on my journal.
happy growing bro
You can defoliate and flip. It wont hurt them
when a branch /leaf gets damaged/removed they put out something like an adrenalin to repair
this can be used when branches are stunted like mine to get an extra bit of growth at the tip heavy leaf removal puts the growth towards the tip of the plant rather than the leaf.
my grows get constantly defoliated pretty much all the way through grow and veg.
last grow total leaf removed was 15 kilos. Yes was being nurdy weighing them wet.
T
his grow they suffered a root burning through my own fault had to heavily lollipop before flippingyou can see the leaf piles on my journal.
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Welcome to the hat's medicine cupboard, taking this opportunity to put a bit of druidism in me grow by flipping on the solstice LOL Area 8 foot by 5 foot holding 37 should be 40 but 3 pegged out. Each plant has 1 sq foot to grow in. Yes i now will be slatted something rotten with only 1 sq foot...
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1ManTeam
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Ya I don’t know how bad I stressed them so by throwing them into 24hr darkness would probably stress them out more. I’m gonna give them acouple days to recover. I did foliar spray PowerSi original and bloom rite after the strip to help with stress. Idk if that works or not. Have u tried the 24hr darkness, what’s ur theory in that
1ManTeam
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harrythehat
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No worries though I would not use bloom nute yet, they can't take in that ratio yet
PJ Diaz
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I think 24-hours of darkness is more confusing to the plant than anything. I use far red end of day treatment to put my plants to sleep faster, and promote flowering earlier.
ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ
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Defoliate and flip immediately if you want
The plant won't even really notice the time change and actually start flowering for a week or so after the flip
In other words, you have a week of veg left anyway after you switch to 1212
The plant won't even really notice the time change and actually start flowering for a week or so after the flip
In other words, you have a week of veg left anyway after you switch to 1212
1ManTeam
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I see, I accidentally forgot to set the timer back to regular 18/6 so instead they got 14/10 last night. I’m thinking adding an hour today and tomorrow to make the transition to 12/12. I already defoliated last night, this is the after pic
1ManTeam
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If it gets stunt growth would it take another week to finish or less productive buds?
ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ
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That is a very good looking canopy
1ManTeam
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Thanks man appreciate the kind words, I can decrease the stretch and have tight internodes but I’ll see how much stretch I can get since I wanna fill the canopy up a bit more. Gonna foliar spray tomorrow morning with PowerSi original and bloom
1ManTeam
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Ya I thought so , but I’m dodging bullets with heavy foliage in here. Thinking of getting some IPM for securityThird shot looks like water evap on plants.